Word: upright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competitive craft like the Force Five (price: $1,925) are faster than the mini-12s, but they are lightweight and prone to tipping. The mini-12s have keels weighted with lead ballast to make them self-righting. So instead of hanging out over the side to keep the boat upright in a stiff breeze, the skipper stays tucked inside the cockpit in roughly the position of someone sitting on a chaise longue. He steers the boat with a foot bar. In addition, the mini-12s boast more sails and ways to adjust them than most small boats. Besides carrying...
...Idaho, a village in the resort area of Island Park (pop. 154) that is perched along the banks of Henry's Fork of the Snake River, or the North Fork as it is known locally. Every summer, the green drake-large and preposterously dandified, resembling, with its translucent upright wings, a miniature clipper ship-makes its appearance on the Idaho stream in an event that is enshrined in fly-fishing mythology. For a few days, scattered green drakes appear in the area, until finally one day the temperatures of the air and water reach critical mass and for perhaps...
...oddest elements in their development is that infants soon lose many of the skills they had at birth. A newborn baby that is held upright on a table is nearly able to walk while suspended; immersed in a tub of water, it makes a fairly impressive try at swimming. Those abilities deteriorate within a few months. The same process seems to occur with intellectual skills that are not used. Psychologists Janet Werker of Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S., and Richard Tees of the University of British Columbia have shown that babies of six to eight months can distinguish sounds that...
Much as shibusa informs the eye of the cutler or potter or flower arranger, it must have informed the eyes of the designers of the Flamingo. This record player plays the disc as it stands upright, and thus becomes a source not only of sound but also of sculptural beauty...
...penultimate minute, another empty theater was found. Cast, friends and well-wishers trekked 21 blocks accompanied by an upright piano in a truck. Blitzstein and the piano took the sceneryless stage, and as the composer played the score, the actors, scattered through the house, stood up and delivered their lines. The event took the audience and the next day's front pages by storm...